Nataraj S Narayan wrote [on 07/06/03 19:53 +0530]: > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > > I used to subscribe into news.vsnl.net.in years back. But isnt the News > server reduntant like veronica or archie ,in today's web centric apps ? > How different can it be from a mailing list? >
At least for me, a news server is very important. Here is why: First of all, I am on dial up. I use pop to download mail. Suppose I subscribed to a mailing list. Then I will have to reply to the confirmation mail, then download all the mail to my local machine about everyday. If I cannot connect for a few days for some reason, a huge amount of mail will be waiting at my pop server. I will have to download them _all_ since I dont use web mail. Or, I will have to inform the mailing list program that I don't want to get mail for so many days. Also, to subscribe, I will have to tell the mailing-list program again. In short, quite a lot of downloading. OTOH, if I subscribe or unsubscribe to a news group, I just tell about it to my news reader, offline. Also, I just download the headers, and the bodies of interesting or important posts only, read them offline, and reply offline, and then connect again to send out the replies. So simple and so less downloading. For very active groups like the debian-user group, I am better off using their news group version than their mailing list version. I wish there was a news group version of this mailing list. Regards, Santanu ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
